August-November Avatar Contest Winner!!!!

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It's that time again! Team Reef Central (Team RC) would like to announce the results for the August thru November Avatar Contest!

Congratulations to our winner bwest, who posted this beautiful photo as his avatar:

Avatar Contest winners receive a full year of Premium Membership as their prize.

The following other members were also nominated for the August thru November 2008 contest. We’d like to thank each of them for their artistic contributions, and comedic relief:

blackthunda77, DLANDINO, I don't get it, DaveBien, JRaquatics, FishyBiz, Blazer88, ClownReef®, fasturtle30, Musho3210, fishtk75, jmadison, Canadian, justinpsmith and Reef n' Madness.

You can see each of the nominated avatars in the posts that follow in this thread.

 

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These avatars were nominated for the period upto November 2008. Great Avatars!

blackthunda77

DLANDINO

ManotheSea

DaveBien

JRaquatics

FishyBiz

Blazer88

 

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ClownReef®

fasturtle30

Musho3210

fishtk75

jmadison

Canadian

 

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justinpsmith

Reef n' Madness

 

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So, how do I participate?

It’s easy. In fact, you already do it. Choose a great avatar and make great posts to the discussion forums. Team RC members are already on the look out for candidates for Reef Central and Reefkeeping features like Thread of the Month and Tank of the Month. With this new contest in place, we’ll be prowling for the best avatars as well.

What makes a great avatar?

Most of the avatars nominated by Team RC members for consideration in the first contest were excellent photos of corals, shrimp, crabs, fish and other aquatic life. However, the nominated avatars were not restricted to only the life in our aquariums. Photos of larger marine life were also represented, as were photos, drawings and cartoons of people and beautiful landscapes. Several were simply hilarious. The common thread they shared is that they impressed Team RC members.

From that initial impression, we nominated the avatars into the contest pool and Team RC voted for the best.

And the prizes are?

Fame, bragging rights and a Premium Membership to Reef Central. What’s so great about Premium Membership? Plenty. Premium Members have an expanded capacity to use the Search feature among other things. And starting in 2008 Reef Central will launch several great new features just for Premium Members.

Nominations, how?

If you spot an avatar you love you can send a PM to a Team RC member with a link to the profile of the person with the great avatar. We’ll review it and decide whether or not to nominate it to the next quarterly contest. You’ll know if your avatar was nominated (in the future) to the contest by a PM from Team RC, so you can eagerly await the next round of contest results.

Reef Central members can’t nominate an avatar directly, and won’t be able to vote on the nominated avatars. The contest is sponsored, run and decided by Team RC. It’s our way of recognizing members who make great contributions not only to forum discussions, but also to the scenery here at Reef Central.

Congratulations again to the winner of our current round; bwest!!!!

 

[melev]

Congrats, bwest!

 

[Garage1217]

I did not even know they had a contest, congrats! *LOL*

 

[bwest]

Thanks, this comes as a surprise.

 

[customcolor]

that is a sweet avatar. looks like a big hug

 

[David - Miami]

Congrats BWest!

Any tips on creating an avatar??

 

[thecoralreefer]

or a comfy pillow
grats man

 

[docalatamu]

very cool pics everyone

 

[weakspleen]

Congrats bwest and those are a lot of cool pics that were in the contest.

 

[mkbtank]

Hey - those animals look familiar Good job Brett!

 

[blackthunda77]

i totally just stumbled across this thread, lol. kinda caught me off guard when i saw my avatar, had noooo idea. lol thanks anyways to whoever nominated my avatar.

 

[Bernie21]

Now, how is it that my Avitar wasnt nominated, I have "THE U", lol!! Back to the drawing board I guess, J/K. Good Luck all contestants, specially Blackthunda77!!!

 

[CoralBeautyII]

LOL well thats a different type of contest
cool

 

[ManotheSea]

Thanks for the nomination. LOL.

It looks like me but the name is wrong. Anyway, very cool.

 

[FishyBiz]

Sweet

 

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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13953110#post13953110 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ManotheSea
It looks like me but the name is wrong.